We need macro...concentrate. I really do miss many of the macros from Sims 2. (I never really got into Sims 3- too many problems!)

Different social groups will occupy apartments with different rental values and amenities. Does anyone know what the cut off price is for each different social group? (Or if it relates to amenities, how are the different levels set?)

When I recently reinstalled, I patched after each EP. Just remember not to actually run the game until after you have replaced your final EP with its no CD .exe to avoid SECUROM. (And be administrator while installing.)

It does make sense. I just wanted to alert people to the fact that just changing the password won't necessarily protect them from being hacked on other sites, if you leave the old password on the other sites.

You probably should change your other passwords as well- they can probably get access to your old passwords in the backups. I don't want to sound too paranoid, but if they are that nasty, they may be making a record of the logins and IP of anyone who has recently changed their password. After all, only those guilty of treachery would need to.

Yes, it is legal. It will delay everything by a generation but you will have longer to skill up the child, and get them friends, thus improving their chances. You will also be stuck with a useless, senile elder on the lot eating food and taking up one of the places.

I have just completed the first stage of an adult start- unlocking hopelessness and adventure. I have played an adult start now about six or eight times. It relies on a high element of luck. This time I used a female knowledge sim. She took 5 days until adventurer came up. Adventurer or medical were my first two preferences for careers, so that was the first piece of luck. In the five days she made 8 friends by talking to almost every walkby. A game of snowball fight or water balloon gets them close to friends status, then talk-gossip or talk about hobby. I try to stop at about 60 -70 points as there is a greater chance of them visiting again. I also managed 5 body points, 4 mechanical and 2 charisma, so she could take advantage of promotions immediately.
Fortunately this time I didn't get any of the bad chance cards- I had a couple of games killed by them. If you get several demotions or fired there is not enough time left to get to the top of your career before senility sets in.
She reached the top of her career by day 27, chose the elixir as the career reward. Meanwhile she found a partner who is a GP. On the next Tuesday he moved in. This is as far as I have played. I am still trying to figure out a set of rules incorporating Free Time, as I don't think Pinstar is planning to update them.

I have just loaded up Sims2 on a new machine, and I want it to be as clean as I can get it. I have replaced all the templates with empty ones, removed all character, storytelling and thumbnail files, deleted the video files, made the objects.package files read only, changed the .exe to noCD and downloaded the director's cut. Is there anything else I need to do before playing?
I will be running it in a separate account. What processes can I safely kill?

I am going on holidays, and am afraid I will suffer sims withdrawal. Can I run sims on a MSI Wind U100 netbook?
Specs are:
Intel Atom N270 1.6 Ghz processor,
1 Gb RAM
Motherboard 945GME
Integrated graphics Intel GMA950
Win XP

Has anyone used the 9.7 MB fixed .exe by Reloaded, found at Gamefix? I don't want to download the Creature Creator one by mistake.

Does the crack require arring the whole game, or is it some kind of replacement .exe?

I think you missed the fact that EA sucks.

Hypothetical question: if person1 borrowed person2's game and wanted to load it onto another computer, but without loading SECUROM, or using one of the 3 activations, or allowing it to phone home- how would they go about doing this? Is there an equivalent of a no CD exe?
Assume person1 is ignorant, but can follow simple instructions.